Stephen Dunn is the author of over fifteen collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours and received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also won three National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Rockefeller Foundations Fellowship. Dunn died at the age of eighty-two on June 24, 2021.